Schenectady best for workers County leads region in wages, new jobs

Schenectady County had the highest wages and second-highest job growth rate among counties in the Capital Region
through the second quarter of last year, thanks in part to a strong manufacturing base, according to a federal
Bureau of Labor Statistics report released this week.
“The recovery in Schenectady is gaining momentum,” said Martin Kohli, a regional economist with the bureau.
Schenectady County topped Albany and Saratoga counties in terms of average weekly wages between June 2010
and June 2011.
(The Daily Gazette)
http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2012/feb/08/0208_workers/

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Schenectady best for workers County leads region in wages, new jobs
BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter

    Schenectady County had the highest wages and second-highest job growth rate among counties in the Capital Region through the second quarter of last year, thanks in part to a strong manufacturing base, according to a federal Bureau of Labor Statistics report released this week.
    “The recovery in Schenectady is gaining momentum,” said Martin Kohli, a regional economist with the bureau.
    Schenectady County topped Albany and Saratoga counties in terms of average weekly wages between June 2010 and June 2011: $937 vs. $931 and $804, respectively, according to the quarterly report. In addition, Schenectady’s average weekly wage rate was above the national average of $891, but below the state average of $1,092.
    Kohli said Schenectady and Putnam counties were the only two small counties out of 45 in New York to record wages higher than the national average. A small county is defi ned as having fewer than 75,000 people working at sites within its borders.
    Large counties with the highest average weekly wages in the state are New York, Westchester and Nassau, ranging between $1,034 and $1,645 per week.
    Schenectady’s 2011 weekly wage average, however, is slightly below its 2010 average of $954. Albany’s and Saratoga’s 2011 averages, meanwhile, are up from a year earlier.
    Kohli said Schenectady’s weekly wage average is above the national average because of the presence of 5,600 high-paying manufacturing jobs in the county. “These are jobs that are paying an average of $1,500 a week, and that brings up the county average,” he said.
    The data does not list companies by name, only the types of manufacturing job. The data, for example, shows Schenectady is home to several hundred jobs in fabricated metals that pay an average wage of $943 per week and home to more than 500 jobs in chemical manufacturing that pay more than $1,400 per week. Kohli said the manufacturing sector also includes jobs at the General Electric steam turbine and battery-making facilities in Schenectady.
    Glen Tabolt of STS Steel in Schenectady said the average weekly wage figure is close to the mark to what his metal fabricating company pays its employees, and his company is looking for workers. “We are getting some work now, and we are looking for people. If we can find good people, we will bring them on board,” he said.
    Juliana Lam, manager of global brand and communications for the SI Group, said her company is proud to be part of Schenectady’s resurgence. The company employs 400 people in Schenectady County, half of whom work at the chemical manufacturing plant in Rotterdam Junction and half of whom work at the company’s global headquarters in Niskayuna.
    The company recently announced expansion plans in China and Brazil that could ultimately result in additional operations at the Rotterdam Junction plant, Lam said. “Any kind of growth at our company means growth at all of our facilities,” she said.
    Wages are higher downstate because that is where high-paying jobs in finance and information services are located, Kohli said. Counties like Fulton and Montgomery have low average weekly wages ($703 and $665, respectively) because they do not attract finance and information services jobs, he added.
    In terms of job growth, Schenectady County saw its workforce expand 2.2 percent between June 2010 and June 2011, the most recent data available. This was the second-highest growth among Capital Region counties, after Saratoga County’s 2.5 percent expansion.
    Kohli said 2.2 percent translates to about 1,200 jobs, giving Schenectady a total workforce of 64,900. He said the health care sector saw the biggest increase in the county, followed by private education, restaurants and bars and manufacturing. ..................>>>>....................>>>>................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00100&AppName=1

This article was written to support the Metroplex that has come under fire in recent weeks. Again moving a job from one part of the county to another only counts as a job created in Schenectady County. The article doesn't mention anything about the jobs that left the county such as the DOT jobs. The article doesn't mention anything about the abandoned houses or tell the truth that nobody wants to live here due to high taxes, most people commute to what few jobs are here and leave as soon as their shift is over. How about the companies who were going to move here until they saw the true condition of the area and then backed out of the deal to come here. Saying that things are wonderful doesn't make it true.

Yes, a true workers paradise.  

This story shows what an absolute TOOL the DG is for the Dems and Metroplex.  

So much for unbiased journalism.  The editors there tell their workers to go "find news" and suddenly everyone's huddling over the fax machine, waiting for the next transmission from the GG (Gillen Gang).

Nice job DG - you're showing you're true colors, yet again.

Job growth is one thing....but how many jobs were LOST?

Wasn't this already proven after McCrappy weaseled his way into office.

Taking a one-year collection of data (a 2.2% increase - 1,200 jobs) means crap if the prior year the County lost 2,000 jobs.

This is one HUGE reason why the Gazette is so blatantly slanted. You need to give the facts...not just those facts you 'like'.

The government for the whole country is reporting false unemployment/employment statistics.  The unemployment rates are improving because of the shear number of people losing the ability to file a claim anymore.  Unemployment extensions are finally coming to a halt.  The wages are increasing the same way that profits at major corporations are improving.  Small companies are going out of business and the big companies are getting bigger.  Less people are working and more people are doing overtime.  That areticle is a word jumbled statistical mess.  Our top city cop made over $2,800 a week last year.  Almost 3 times the state average.  

Daily Gazette = Spin Doctors  

They cherry pick the dates too...Why June to June?  Why not January to January?  Another example of 'fun with statistics'...Does the Gazette have no shame?  If you look at the employment in Schenecatdy between the dates given, it shows a net loss of 1273 jobs between those two dates.

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This story shows what an absolute TOOL the DG is for the Dems and Metroplex.  

So much for unbiased journalism.  The editors there tell their workers to go "find news" and suddenly everyone's huddling over the fax machine, waiting for the next transmission from the GG (Gillen Gang).

Nice job DG - you're showing you're true colors, yet again.

I agree! Don't even know where to begin ripping apart the mistruths spewed in this article. For starts....the SI Group shouldn't have even been in this 'report'. They have been around for 'how long'? And when was the last time they actually hired new employees! Second....how many of these 'employees' actually 'live' in schenectady? Third....the GE plant is 'nothing' in comparison to their other nationwide/worldwide facilities. Ask GE how many of the high paid folks at the schenectady plant are paid GE employees and how many are contractual?

The truth of the matter is that the majority of the jobs in Schenectady are re-locations, not newly created! And after all of the bullcrap about all of the manufacturing jobs....it concludes by stating that the majority of jobs were in the restaurant/bar/health care industry.

So why is it that with all of these so called 'new jobs' is the welfare rate 60% in schenectady?
Has the 'welfare need' gone down?

Nice try at cheerleading for the FAILED metroplex.

This is Schenectadys version of a DEAD CAT BOUNCE.

In economics, a dead cat bounce is a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining stock.[1] Derived from the idea that "even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height", the phrase, which originated on Wall Street, is also popularly used to any case where a subject experiences a brief resurgence during or following a severe decline.

For 50 years, Sheneck county has had the highest private sector employment with GE, R&D, Knolls, UC and SI. Most of the workers unfortunately hightail it to Clifton Park the second work lets out. Of course you can deny it but one only needs to be on Balltown Road in the late afternoon to see it.

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Schenectady’s 2011 weekly wage average, however, is slightly below its 2010 average of $954. Albany’s and Saratoga’s 2011 averages, meanwhile, are up from a year earlier.

In terms of job growth, Schenectady County saw its workforce expand 2.2 percent between June 2010 and June 2011, the most recent data available. This was the second-highest growth among Capital Region counties, after Saratoga County’s 2.5 percent expansion.

Saying it "isn't so", does not make it so!  

As I've posted many times here... NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS IN SCHENECTADY!
If something good does happen... let us know... we'll get rid of it!

What I see in the article clear as day is that Schenectady is not currently capitalizing on one of the greatest potentials in the whole country which is to grow manufacturing and distribution.  The United States is undergoing an unprecidented growth in manufacturing jobs again due to the weak dollar and we are replacing the most prime parcel of land at Alco to build more residential units.  It does not make any sense.  How are we rewarding GE for staying.  How are we rewarding STS Steel by landlocking them.  

That makes perfect sense.  

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  The United States is undergoing an unprecidented growth in manufacturing jobs

UNPRECIDENTED??? REALLY? Where? And what is it that we are manufacturing in this country.....other than printing money faster than we can spend it and pay it back?